Zen-Cart e-Store

Starting at: $350.00

Putting together an online store involves some planning. It starts with where you are right now. Do you already own a offline store? Are you selling things on e-bay or Amazon? Do you have a web site already, but it needs a payment module? Do you already have an online store, but you have to rely on a page editor or webmaster to adjust the inventory because you have no back office through which to do it yourself? Just getting started and don't have very much money? These situations warrant flexibility and exploration of available options.

Many storeowners are intimidated about the amount of additional work having an online store might entail. You already have one store which is a lot of work to maintain. Technology allows for options that can enable a centralization of data, with access to it from POS, online sales and a general ledger. Integration is the key. You don't want to have to manage two separate inventories. When you purchase an inventory item in your general ledger, it should change the count for that item in the online store and the POS database as soon as it is received. When a sale is made in the land shop, it should decrease your inventory both in the online shop and the general ledger, posting to the appropriate accounts at the same time. When you change the price of an inventory item in the general ledger, in the online store or through your POS software, it should automatically change it for all three.

The Zen-Cart Online Store below is a starting point. It is free software, which keeps the costs down, and will give you everything you need to get the online store off the ground. If your inventory is in a database already, it can be imported initially into the database online and will display immediately, with pricing. The next step would be integrating the POS, the general ledger and the online store.

Lesko Web Engineering offers hosting, an installation and personalization of the Zen-Cart store with purchase of the Zen-Cart eStore. Everything that you can't do from the back office will be done by us. You choose the design and we will add your logo and make minor adjustments. Other services available include integration of POS and a general ledger (either the one you have, Quickbooks or webERP, which is another free software for sale on this site) and continued support in the form of changes on the site that require coding and any training you may like. The Zen-Cart manual, available from Cucumber Media, and the Zen-Cart Forum provide excellent support. You are welcome to use ourHelp Desk for whatever support you may need above and beyond those resources.